Millers Landing-Vereker Outlook trail

Millers Landing-Vereker Outlook trail

Wilsons Promontory National Park

Length: 6 kilometres
Walk: 3 hours
Track: Moderate
Grade: Moderate
Start: Five Mile Road car park
Finish: Five Mile Road car park
Nearby: Foster
Permits/bookings: Park entry fee.

Early visitors to the Prom often came by boat from Port Welshpool across Corner Inlet to Millers Landing at the southern end of the Yanakie Isthmus. This trail takes a much easier route to this remote and beautiful spot, passing through attractive banksia woodlands, open Messmate forest, stands of grasstrees and colourful heathlands. Emus, kangaroos and wallabies are often seen, as well as raucous yellow-tailed black cockatoos, many types of honeyeaters, wrens and robins.

The shores of Corner Inlet are a haven for waterbirds, including cormorants, gulls, swans, egrets and ibis. They are also the site of the southernmost stand of mangrove trees in the world, stunted survivors in an unkind climate. The remains of an old hut nearby are a reminder of the days when cattle grazed here early last century.

From Millers Landing there is a link track to Lookout Rock and Vereker Outlook. A gentle climb through banksia and eucalypt woodland and past huge granite boulders is rewarded with superb views across Corner Inlet, Darby Swamp, native grasslands and the dunes of distant Waratah Bay. Return to the car park along Five Mile Road.

Further Information
Parks Victoria Ph 13 1963 (within Australia)